X-Message-Number: 22683
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: Population concerns
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:40:40 +0100

There seems to be a confusion between overall population of the planet
(prognosis good) and
voluntary concentrations of people in places considered by the majority to
be desirable (prognosis bad)

The latter problem results in various areas starting out being desirable,
people flock in and they eventually start to exhibit the environmental and
economic problems that Mark Plus mentions . The latter have started to
appear here in Cornwall (eg restaurant owners unable to get waitresses
because they can't afford accommodation on the wages the restaurant can
support)

However the problem of concentration will surely reduce when technology
makes it possible to make more desirable areas  economically feasible to
populate. This will also reduce the cost of accommodation. This cost is
often high because of planning or zoning laws rather than a genuine scarcity
of building land.

People like to live on the edge of bodies of water, lakes oceans etc. There
are many areas in the world where this is totally impracticable at the
moment. But this need not always be the case with improved technology.
Existing proposals for artificial island and so on will become more
economically feasible as technology advances.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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